SWK 718 - Social Work Ethics in Theory and Practice

3 Credit(s) Faced with growing number of ethical challenges, social service agencies, hospitals, nursing homes are increasingly utilizing ethics consultants or establishing internal ethics committees-social workers should be prepared to act as leaders in these endeavors. This course will prepare students to make cogent moral arguments in support of public policies or agency decisions by familiarizing student with the philosophical, theoretical and practical foundations of ethical decision making in social work. Three lecture credit hours.